White buses that look similar to ones that enter Alligator Alcatraz are seen at the corner of Commerce Avenue and Fisher Street, Oct. 21, 2025, in Stuart. Increased immigration enforcement began Oct. 17, though it is yet unknown how many arrests have been made.

Texas, says U.S. Border Patrol agents, Customs and Border Protection officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are getting paid during the ongoing

Its agents are immigration officers, like officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is also part of the Department of Homeland Security. While ICE has traditionally operated in the country, Border Patrol’s focus is the 6,000 miles of international border and a zone of about 100 miles inland.

A federal agent pointed a gun at the state representative as he and his staff alerted North Side residents to immigration agents.

Plus: Chicagoans are blowing the whistle on ICE, a workshop for Mexican immigrants interested in self-deportation and more.

Border Patrol has sent agents to 27 cities nationwide to assist ICE in arresting illegal immigrants who were wrongly released under Biden.

Houston police have referred more than a hundred detainees to ICE for immigration status checks this year — a surge of more than 1,000 percent, according to the Houston Chronicle. This has not happened because of a spike in arrests or crime in Houston or anything like that.

The Coast Guard launched Operation River Wall along eastern Texas' Rio Grande to support President Donald Trump's border security mission.

University of Washington researchers found that data from two Pierce County cities was accessed by federal immigration authorities.